Then in 1986, for a whopping $840 million, PepsiCo added KFC to its conglomerate, which now includes Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Only seven years later, in 1971 Heublein, Inc., bought the KFC Corporation for $275 million. Brown, Jr., a young Louisville lawyer, and Jack Massey, a Nashville financier, bought the Colonel's business for $2 million. Four years later there were more than 600 franchises, including one in England, the first overseas outlet. Five years after first franchising the business, Colonel Harland Sanders had 400 outlets in the United States and Canada. In the last forty years KFC has experienced extraordinary growth. As a more health-conscious society began to affect sales of fried chicken, the company changed its name to KFC and introduced a lighter fare of skinless chicken. In 1991 Kentucky Fried Chicken bigwigs decided to improve the image of America's third-largest fast-food chain.
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